Several parts of the Capital reeled under power crisis on Thursday that started late on Wednesday night. Worst affected were the North, West and East Delhi areas where long outages were reported. The power distribution companies, however, said the outages were due to repair and maintenance works.
With the weather turning extremely humid, power cuts added to the woes of the residents. The outages occurred as the Badarpur Thermal Power Station (BTPS) link to Delhi Transco limited's (DTl) Ghazipur 220 KV Grid broke down on Monday night in the Noida segment. “The break-down in the Ghazipur line is constraining the flow of electricity to DTl's Ghazipur Grid, which in turn feeds electricity to Patparganj, Ghazipur and Mayur Vihar areas of BSES Yamuna Power limited (BYPl). This has been sporadically affecting power supply in parts of East Delhi for the last couple of days,” said a BYPl official.
Midnight power cuts in parts of South Delhi like Vasant Vihar, Munirka, Chittaranjan Park, Alaknanda, Khanpur, Greater Kailash-I, Nehru Place, Jangpura Extension, Nizamuddin, RK Puram, Sarita Vihar, Mithapur, Aali Gaon, Badarpur, Madanpur Khadar, Sarvapriya Vihar and parts of Saket continued. A few residents of these areas said that power cuts were for shorter durations as compared to previous days but they were frequent and thus caused similar troubles.
“There was no power from midnight at 12:30 to 2 am. Power cuts at night are very distressing after we work whole day in the office,” said Santanu Goswami, a resident of Mayur Vihar Phase I. Areas like Karkarduma, Karawal Nagar, laxmi Nagar and Krishna Nagar also faced long power cuts.
At the same time, frequent power cuts in North, South and West Delhi areas made people sweat it out throughout the day. In North Delhi, areas like Civil lines, Keshavpuram, Pitampura, Mangolpuri, Indra Vihar and Mukherjee Nagar faced power cuts to the tune of two hours. In West Delhi areas like Uttam Nagar, Bindapur, Khayala, Tilak Nagar and Moti Nagar witnessed power cuts for as long as four hours.